For any home brewers out there, this is an amazing video to check out about the two founders of Almanac Beer Company and how they started the company from nothing. Founders, Jesse Freidman and Damian Fagan met at a brew club in San Francisco and started home brewing right in their backyard. The video explains their start and the unique beers that they brew using different processes and ingredients in the beer. After watching this video, I’m sure you will want to start home brewing yourself. Definitely, an aspiring video of starting from scratch in the beer industry.

NEW YORK, NY—May 9, 2011:On Wednesday, May 25, 2011, Academy Award-winning director Gus Van Sant will host a cocktail reception from 6:30-8:30 PM at New York City’s LGBT Community Center, 208 West 13th Street (between 7th & Greenwich Avenues) in Manhattan to raise funds for ACT UP!, a new documentary film now in production.* Van Sant, the acclaimed director of films including Drugstore CowboyMy Own Private Idaho, To Die For, Good Will Hunting and Milkis overseeing the production. A portion of the proceeds from the fundraiser will benefit AIDS organizations worldwide through a collaborative partnership with UNAIDS, the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS.

The film traces the history of ACT UP – the AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power – a group of New Yorkers who mobilized when municipal, state and federal government all turned a blind eye as their friends, families and loved ones were being decimated by a then-untreatable disease. ACT UP’s urgent mission was to pressure government to acknowledge the raging AIDS epidemic and take emergency measures to combat it. ACT UP’s founding New York chapter spawned branches throughout America and across the globe. Refusing to be passive victims, AIDS activists updated the civil disobedience tactics of the 1960s with a media-savvy flair that riveted the attention of the nation. Ultimately, ACT UP forced timid political leaders and an apathetic government bureaucracy to respond comprehensively to a grave public health crisis.
Assembled from hundreds of hours of historic footage and contemporary interviews under the guidance of Producers/Directors Scott Robbe (Queer Eye For The Straight Guy) and Jerry Kolber (National Geographic Television, Jedi Junkies), a major asset of the film is never-before-seen footage shot in 1987 and 1988 by Scott Robbe featuring interviews with key members of ACT UP! amidst the organization’s most tumultuous period. ACT UP!is being co-directed by Ellen Spiro (Body of War, named Best Documentary of 2007 by the National Board of Review)

Within a few years of its founding, ACT UP’s strategically-targeted activism spurred the Food & Drug Administration to shave years off the approval process for medications that held promise to treat AIDS and led to an almost 50% decrease in the cost of treatments. It is the legacy of ACT UP to have transformed what was once a death sentence into a manageable disease. Importantly, ACT UP! shows how ordinary citizens can mobilize to successfully challenge outmoded government policies and protocols. Indeed, ACT UP! sparked the emergence of dozens of patient and consumer advocacy groups around the nation and worldwide to strategically pressure government, corporations and institutions to be more alert and responsive to life-threatening health crises.

By drawing on extensive archives of footage filmed on handheld cameras by video activists, the film captures the dynamic energy of protest. You are there as demonstrators aggressively take their fight to jar public awareness into the majestic halls of Grand Central Station, onto the floor of the New York Stock Exchange and directly to the Centers for Disease Control and the FDA in Washington. Combined with current interviews of key participants and contemporaneous news reports on ACT UP’s often shocking tactics, spliced together in a fast-paced, music video style of editing with a hip, kinetic soundtrack, the audience’s senses are carried along with the irresistible force of democracy being fulfilled.
One reason why ACT UP! is an essential film for our time is because it captures the story of what was one of the most effective grassroots movements of the modern era. Now, when HIV transmission rates are on the rise among many demographics and the battle for marriage equality is being fought in voting booths and courthouses across America, a new generation of activists need to be inspired and emboldened. Just as Van Sant’s Milk brought the important story of the early gay rights movement to a new generation, ACT UP! will re-contextualize the powerful accomplishments of AIDS activists for a 21st century audience.

ACT UP! is currently in production with the expectation of premiering at Sundance 2012, followed by wide theatrical release and television broadcast. A companion record album produced by Anthony Rapp (Rent) and a coffee-table book co-written by producers/directors Scott Robbe and Jerry Kolber will accompany the film’s release. Sponsors of and participants in the May 25th fundraiser for the film in addition to Gus Van Sant include Susan Sarandon, Christine Vachon (Producer, Far From Heaven, Boys Don’t Cry, Hedwig and the Angry Inch), fashion guru and author Carson Kressley of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, talk show host Phil Donahue, food critic and Chopped host Ted Allen, and openly-gay and HIV-positive New York State Senator Tom Duane.

* Mr. Van Sant may have scheduling conflicts that could prevent him from attending the event.

The Pretty Reckless will be celebrating the physical release of their debut album, Light Me Up, today at Best Buy Union Square in NYC. “Not since Saint Joan of Jett first grabbed a guitar has hard rock sounded this sexy,” proclaims the New York Post in a review published today. Visit the band’s official website for more details on their schedule including another performance and signing at Looney Tunes in Long Island this weekend.

Check out a new stripped down performance of their song “Just Tonight” off of the album from a recent session at The Cherrytree House.

Finland’s legendary orchestral rock band and Jive recording artist, Apocalyptica, are currently premiering the video for their latest single “Not Strong Enough” (Click to view video) on AOL Noisecreep. The song which includes vocals by Doug Robb of Hoobastank is the follow-up to the hit single “End of Me,” which featured vocals by Gavin Rossdale. Other guests on their latest album, 7th Symphony, are Lacey from Flyleaf, Gojira’s Joe Duplantier, and Slayer drummer Dave Lombardo. Aside from the vocal tracks, the album features the group’s most dynamic symphonic instrumentals to date.

Apocalyptica‘s North American tour will launch March 3rd in Fort Lauderdale, FL at the Culture Room and run through March 27th in Dallas, TX at the House Of Blues. Apocalyptica will be touring in support of, 7th Symphony, which came out August 24th and debuted at No. 31 on the Billboardalbum chart. Joe Barresi (Tool, Queens of the Stone Age) produced the majority of the record and Howard Benson (My Chemical Romance, Papa Roach) produced an additional two tracks.

Jamie Foxx is back with a new video. I really thought Jamie was done with his singing career after his collaboration with Kanye West on “Gold Digger.” I guess I was wrong. Jamie Foxx premiered “Fall for Your Type” on BET on the 10th, but you can watch the behind the scene video and the official video below. “Fall for Your Type” is the first single from Foxx’s new album Best Night Of My Life, set for release on December 21st on J Records.

How would you describe Jägermeister in one word? That’s the question we posed to the bands on the Jägermeister Fall Music Tour. Find out what members of co-headliners Slayer and Megadeth, as well as special guest Anthrax had to say in this latest video clip:

Since they formed in 1993, Finnish orchestral rock band Apocalyptica has released six studio albums featuring numerous cello-based instrumentals along with some vocal-based songs. Whatever styles they’ve explored – from atmospheric interludes to fast, battering rhythms — their music has been gripping, dynamic and full of melody. [Read more…]

Three Days Grace stopped by MTV recently to give them five facts that fans may not already know about the band. Check out the video to learn how much the band loves the great outdoors and survival gear, their bullying experiences as children, how long they’ve been together, and most importantly how and where the band recorded their new album, Life Starts Now.

Life Starts Now is available in stores and on iTunes, and the first single from the record, ?Break,? is in heavy rotation on rock radio. Check out the Three Days Grace official website for upcoming international tour dates, and updates from the band.

Fountains of Wayne will release their first-ever live DVD March 3rd. It’s called No Better Place and it was recorded in my territory of Chicago. It includes 16 tracks of fan favorites and never-before-seen acoustic set from the Jersey natives.

Here it is in its full glory…uncensored because I don’t censor here on the Dead Hub. They disabled the embed so you can double click on it for all you PC users. It’s funny because they aren’t on a boat…IT’S A YACHT!!!

I have been a bad girl and missed these guys (and girl) twice this year! Between car problems and bad timing the opportunity slipped through my fingers to catch The Devil Makes Three’s live performance. For all of us who missed their latest round of tour dates in Southern California, here is “Old Number Seven” live.

Current Tour Dates:

January 16 The Independent San Fran, CA
January 17 The Independent San Fran, CA
January 23 The Phoenix Theater Petaluma, CA
January 24 The Blue Lamp Sacramento, CA

Remember when Sarah Mclachlan collaborated with Delerium for the song “Silence”? It was used in the Brokedown Palace soundtrack. The UK rock band Esoterica covered the song and it truly has a dark edge. The video is receiving airplay in the UK on Kerrang and Scuzz.

UPDATE: Realised that for some the link may not work. It should launch Windows Media Player to watch the video. If you can’t see the video but you can listen to the track below.

Ahhh…The Love Willows. The are one of my favorite new pop duos. They are currently out on tour with Push Play. See Dates HERE! Unfortunately it’s all East Coast dates, so for those of us here on the West Coast and everywhere else we can sit back and enjoy their latest music video for “Falling Faster.”

As promised, Disturbed on Rockstar Mayhem in San Diego! The opening is the greatest. Don’t know if they are doing this on their current European Tour so all our European Disturbed fans will have to let me know.
UPDATE: Sorry, had to switch video players. I am looking for a HQ online video player that can hold the massive videos we have. In other words, we are back to the craptacular Youtube quality vids until I find a replacement. Check back…

I’ve been working on the video gallery to actually store all these videos we have. As of right now we all have to deal with single postings of each song. Pain in the ass, yes, will it be worth it when the gallery goes up!

Pardon the bass distortion on the Slipknot videos that I am posting. Standing right next to the speakers and monitors doesn’t make for great sound quality even when volumes are adjusted on the camera. This disclaimer is also for Slipknot’s first song they performed for the night.

This would also be a great time to do a disclosure. The Dead Hub obtained permission to video Rockstar Mayhem 2008. We are not responsible for the acts and messages displayed by the artists or patrons in the videos. None of our videos are censored so you view at our own risk.

We also have videos from Underoath (Song 1/Song 2) with more Mayhem artists to come.

Here is the second song from the Underoath set at Mayhem in San Diego. If you need to see the first song it is here. I know that the video screen overlaps the right side a bit. I decided I didn’t want to compromise any more of the video quality. As mentioned before the video gallery is coming so all the videos will be in one place, so stay tuned.

UPDATE: Had to switch videoplayers…Sorry back to the Crappy Youtube vids until I can find a better player without paying hundreds of dollars an hour. I promise I’ll get a better HQ Videoplayer.

This is the first of 2 videos from Underoath’s performance on the Rockstar Mayhem Tour in San Diego, CA. Look out for more Mayhem Videos and a Video Gallery coming your way.

UPDATE: Sorry, switched video players. I hated to do it. I’m on the hunt for a HQ Player online that won’t cost hundreds of dollars on my end to use. In other words, we are back to the crappy Youtube quality videos. Sorry, it kills me too!

I am going to admit none of the Dead Crew stayed for the Slipknot set. It was decided we’d rather beat traffic out of the parking lot. I must say even though we only stayed for 4 songs of the set, it could have been the most interesting 4 songs.

The show started with the smoke machines producing so much smoke photos and video were tough to get for the first song. Corey, the frontman of the band, was drooling onstage that made for some gross but very interesting video. We’ll have that up soon, I promise.

As Sparky got kicked out of the barricade after her 2 songs of shooting video she was walking up the walkway to the right of the stage. As she sees me, I notice a security guard and a guy in mask running up the way. Of course it wasn’t good. Sparky ended up being pushed into the temporary railings and down she and the railings went. Apparently Slipknot’s drummer jumped offstage and ran over everybody in his way. It was very rockstar-like, but also very arrogant and rude.

After we peeled Sparky up from the ground and she figured out what just happened to her we gathered the Crew and headed out as Slipknot went into the only Slipknot song I knew, “Before I Forget.” A few of us just don’t understand Slipknot, Corey is such a great singer and isn’t an eye sore yet people love Slipknot in masks. Yes, I understand it’s a gimmick.

I am really enjoying Corey singing for Apocalyptica on “I’m Not Jesus.” That is a great song. If you haven’t heard it yet, don’t worry it doesn’t sound like Slipknot, and you can actually understand the words he sings.